Chapter 296: Alien Minotaur

After returning to the helicopter, Sophia felt that the road ahead was dangerous, so Sophia carried out a surprise reinforcement of herself, she swallowed and absorbed several crystal nuts according to the method taught by Xiangzhu Jushi, and repeatedly checked her weapons and equipment.

Lin Zaishan arranged many traps around the helicopter before everyone had dinner, ensuring that when he and Sophia went on an expedition tomorrow, the girls still had a certain ability to take precautions; At the same time, they cast strange spells and sprayed plant juices to cover everyone's breath and keep a low profile and concealment.

By the time he had finished packing, Adele had prepared dry food and fruit for him to eat.

At this time, it was already dark, and there were strange and terrifying sounds in the jungle outside the helicopter. The women shuddered when they heard this, and even Sophia couldn't help frowning and worried.

Among the people, Lin Zaishan was the only one who was calm, munching on fruits, as if he was camping in the wilderness before the end of the world.

Adele sat next to Lin Zaishan and said softly: "Mr. Zhalin, I feel safer by your side." ”

"Don't worry, I'll do everything I can to protect you."

"Humph!" Sophia interjected disdainfully: "In these last days, no place is safe, and relying on others can only make oneself more dangerous. You guys are counting on Zharin to protect you, and who can guarantee that he won't be negligent or careless, or that he will be furious at night? ”

"I believe that Mr. Zalin is not a terrible beast, at least he is better looking and kind than an orangutan."

"Girls, I'm still here!" Lin Zaishan beckoned.

Sophia said: "The two of us have to go to the sinkhole tomorrow to adventure, I suggest that it is best to accumulate strength now to be prepared." ”

"Great idea!" Lin Zaishan said: "I do have several things that must be done tonight. ”

Sophia said to the other 3 girls: "You guys stay away tonight, don't get in the way of our recuperation." ”

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In the first half of the night, Lin Zaishan mainly did three things:

First, the weapons and equipment that may be used tomorrow have been consciously projected and solidified, and a lot of star soul codes (spells) have been embedded in them. In this way, a random bullet fired by him can complete a series of operations like an intelligent life with autonomous consciousness.

Second, I read the consciousness of the sixth-level Star Soul girl stored in a special chip again, and learned a lot of useful knowledge. This girl mentioned a kind of ability and magic that can enable Lin Zaishan to directly realize the smooth conversion of external electromagnetic signals and his own consciousness information without the intermediary and translation of the Star Calling Beast (Star Soul Decoder) and Sister Lin (Lin Fuzi), in other words, he can now freely store and read his consciousness on special chips and even many natural objects, and the external world has become the hard disk of his brain operating system to some extent. This is much more nuanced than a general, vague, scattered projection of consciousness. Not only that, but he can also combine this ability with the ability to project consciousness to encode certain things in the outside world so that they exist and change according to their expectations. The potential and prospects of this hybrid capability are endless, which not only provides Lin Zaishan with a convenient passage to quickly overtake in evolution, but also brings infinite possibilities for capacity development, innovation and creativity.

Thirdly, he used this hybrid ability he had just acquired to crack the Martial Saint's spatial ring, and after a few failures, he managed to break through.

"Ha, let's see what good things this 'sage brother' has hidden." Lin Zaishan probed his consciousness into the spatial ring, and fell into a state of stupora for an object he first discovered. "I'll go! The martial saint actually collected a set of women's underwear, which was still pink. ”

Lin Zaishan immediately took out the pink underwear and threw it at the helicopter window, Sophia was quick to intercept it, and held it high to show the women, "Our sanctimonious Mr. Zalin still has this 'elegant' habit?" ”

The other three women were on high alert and did not sleep, staring at the pink object in Sophia's hand and laughing.

Lin Zaishan reminded: "This is a collection of martial saints, you are holding it so tightly, aren't you afraid of a virus?" ”

Before he could finish speaking, Sophia threw the pink object out the window as if her hands had been scalded with boiling water. "Adele, remind me in the future, don't let the slag forest come within 5 meters of me."

"Are you sure 5 meters is the right distance?" Adele asked deliberately, "Such a close distance is not enough for a dangerous 'beast' like Mr. Zalin to get close in 0.1 seconds. ”

Lin Zaishan ignored the bickering of the women and continued to check the other items in the Martial Saint Space Ring: the next thing that caught his attention was a booklet. He took out the booklet and flipped through it with great interest, and after only reading two pages, he was overjoyed, it turned out that the booklet recorded all kinds of spells known to the martial saints, at least a small half of which Lin Zaishan had not yet mastered. "This is like the remnants of a sixth-level powerhouse."

Lin Zaishan was now extremely efficient in handling spells, and he memorized all the spells in just a few minutes without asking for help from the Star Soul Encoder, and rehearsed them several times in the sea of consciousness. "If these are all the spells that the Martial Saint has mastered, then I dare to pack the ticket, he is no longer my opponent at all."

The composition of the individual strength of the trialist is nothing more than three aspects: the first aspect, the level of the star soul and the strength of life energy, there is a world of difference between each level. Generally speaking, a person with a higher Star Soul level can easily crush a person with a lower level. The second aspect is the basic combat effectiveness formed based on the use of physical strength and intelligence. In this regard, Lin Zaishan can be described as strong, experienced and experienced, and in terms of skill alone, he can face almost any strong enemy head-on. Third, abilities.

There are five types of abilities according to how they occur: (1) primary abilities, which are abilities that sprout naturally, such as Gao Dawei's space leap ability, Li Yan's firelight ability, etc., the occurrence of primary abilities is not only uncontrollable but also unpredictable; (2) looted abilities, i.e., abilities obtained through gambling in the Void Arena or devouring related life, such as the ability of plants in the forest; (3) secondment-based abilities, i.e., spell-driven abilities, because spells are nothing more than pseudocode, spell-driven abilities are essentially just short-term calls to abilities that the Star Soul coder has already developed; (4) Proxy abilities, i.e., the ability is used by the Superior Star Soul as a representative of the latter, and if the Advanced Star Soul takes back the agency, the related ability will disappear, such as Buffalo Bill's electric shock ability is actually granted by the Star Soul Shepherd; (5) Autonomous abilities, that is, abilities that occur by directly marking and visualizing the Star Soul symbol, which are the most stable and powerful manifestations of the Star Soul's essential attributes, such as Lin Zaishan's electric shock ability, self-healing ability, etc.

Most of the Martial Saint's abilities are essentially spell-driven, so they don't suffer when fighting other Trialists; But if you encounter Lin Zaishan again, it is entirely possible to be cracked and hacked by the latter, so as to weaken, invalidate or even counterattack yourself, not to mention that Lin Zaishan is no worse than the martial saint, the only difference between the latter is the level of the star soul and the accompanying life energy intensity.

Lin Zaishan then searched through the space ring of the Martial Saint and found a lot of high-value crystals and some special bullets. These bullets are made with black technology, and the flight trajectory and speed can be intelligently controlled, and a curse attack is added; However, it does not have the recycling and Star Soul locking properties of Sophia's Wishful Armor-Piercing Arrow. For Lin Zaishan, the bullets work almost the same as his consciousness solidified in objects, but not as smart and powerful as him.

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Suddenly a mutant beast screamed in the distance, loud and terrible, and after a few seconds, it came to an abrupt end, and the jungle returned to a terrible silence.

"It's a mutant leopard with a seventh-level plus!" Lin Zaishan jumped up, "This agile nocturnal animal was easily killed, which shows how powerful the hunter is." He said to Sophia, "I suspect that this hunter is a terrible creature crawling out of the sinkhole, and we will encounter them nine times out of ten tomorrow, and there is a high probability that we will be devoured by them." ”

"That's an inspiring thing to say."

"I'm going to scout them now and get a sense of what they are. You stay in the helicopter to recharge. ”

"Then you can use your night vision equipment and communicator to broadcast it live to us."

Lin Zaishan put on his gear and silently got out of the helicopter like a tanuki and disappeared into the depths of the jungle.

The women gathered together in front of Sophia's handheld computer to watch the "live broadcast".

"I'll go! Why is Mr. Zhalin's trajectory so weird? It's not like a person walking at night, but it's like a ...... Wild cats are jumping. Wendy exclaimed, "He's so agile and quick!" ”

"Look, there's something up ahead!" Adele reminded.

The women saw Lin Zaishan lurking behind a big tree, and there was a tall and vague shadow in the small clearing in the distance behind the big tree, like a flowing flame.

"It must be that horrible monster!" All the women were involuntarily silenced.

Beneath that tall, blurred figure was the corpse of a rank 7 mutant leopard, whose head was gone, and a large piece of its torso was missing. I saw that the blurred figure leaned down on the corpse of the mutant leopard like a bear, a wolf and other beasts, and with a slight but clear biting sound, the mutant leopard was disemboweled.

"Miss, what kind of monster is this, it's so scary!"

Sophia reminded Lin Zaishan softly in the communicator: "Can you determine the category of the monster?" ”

Lin Zaishan replied in the form of consciousness projection: "I can't be sure, this is definitely a completely new species." I'd like to take a closer look. As he spoke, he continued to move cautiously over the tree.

By the time Lin Zaishan stopped again, the monster had already devoured most of the mutant leopard, and it raised its body and shook its body, like a well-fed and well-fed human tyrant and fat man doing a diet action.

Suddenly, the monster's figure disappears from the camera.

"Huh? Where did it go? Before Adele could finish speaking, the camera shook violently, followed by a rapid change in the picture, which was dazzling and dizzying.

"Zhalin, what's going on?" Sophia asked.

“Fuck！” Lin Zaishan screamed, "The horns of this monster almost hit my chrysanthemum." ”

"Do you need me to help? Zhalin, how are you? ”

Lin Zaishan did not respond, and the women could only see the sharp change of the picture, hearing the shaking of the branches and leaves of the jungle trees and the wheezing of fierce beasts hunting. But soon, the picture disappeared and the signal was interrupted.

After 3 minutes of anxious waiting, Lin Zaishan's voice suddenly came from the communicator, "I'm fine, I'm returning." ”

Soon Lin Zaishan's figure flashed into the helicopter. All the women gathered around and asked long and short questions.

"Zalin, what kind of monster are you encountering?"

"I'm sure there is absolutely no such natural species on Earth, but it has been seen in myths and legends." Lin Zaishan said as he used his ability to generate an image on Sophia's palm computer.

The women's eyes widened, and what they saw was a monster with a bull head, a bear body, an ape arm, and a tiger tail supporting its torso with its lower limbs, but the outline was very blurry, and the facial features could not be seen clearly.

"Minotaur? Are you sure none of us are hallucinating? ”

"I wish it was a hallucination, but the wound on my ass reminds me that everything is real."

"Are you hurt? Is it serious? ”

"The damage inflicted by the Minotaur is accompanied by both poison and curse effects." Lin Zaishan replied bitterly, "This poison is not effective for me, but I am afraid it will be fatal to you." As for the curse effect, hehe, I've been working on this a bit lately. He said as he cast a spell to undo the curse's damage.

"Poison and curses?" Sophia was not worried, but happy, "The master just taught me how to deal with it before leaving. I think she must have encountered this kind of minotaur before, so she was prepared. ”

"It's good to have a master." Lin Zaishan was really a little envious, jealous and hateful, "Unlike me, I have to go through the test of life and death to find any survival skills." ”

After he said this, two voices in the sea of consciousness protested at the same time:

Sister Lin said, "Brother, have you forgotten me?" You report the information to me, and I will perform information retrieval, simulation drills, etc. for you. ”

The star called the beast and said: "The so-called minotaur is actually just a composite alien of an eighth-level body and a fifth-level star soul. It is not a threat to the sixth-level plus star soul who has both ability and combat power. Give me 10 kilograms of meteorites and I'll tell you how to deal with them. ”

Lin Zaishan thought to himself: "Although the star is called a beast, this guy is a super virus himself, but fortunately I have a lot of experience in programming to see through it." I can trade with this guy, but I must not rely on it, and important information and knowledge must be kept secret. Lin Fuzi (Sister Lin) was originally a loyal and reliable AI, but since it was adapted by the star beast, it is no longer reliable, and I don't use it if I can. ”

When he was still in this state of mind, all kinds of problems of the women bombarded him.

"Zalin, the minotaur won't attack here, will it?"

"They stopped their pursuit about 800 meters from the edge of the sinkhole, and I guess they can't or don't dare to go too far from the sinkhole."

"They? Is there more than one? ”

"At least three of them were chasing me at the same time, and luckily my speed ability was pretty good. Speaking of which, I would like to give you a friendly reminder: Minotaurs have the ability to teleport within a range of tens of meters, don't expect to rely on a uniform, straight, and monotonous way of movement to avoid them. ”

"Why are you just thinking about dodging, can't you just use your brains to see how you can kill them?" Sophia looked full of fighting spirit, "I believe that the higher the level of the monster, the more treasures there will be." ”

Lin Zaishan sighed when he heard this: "That's right! Sure enough, she is a fierce heroine with a bold and practical way of thinking. ”